La Boutique Fantasque

February, 1960

There's probably nothing more exciting to a young man just out of college, or any young man in his early twenties, than a year in Paris absolutely on his own. He's old enough to have developed some appreciation of the joys of life, and yet is not held down by intimidating experience or cynical disillusionment.I was lucky enough to be among those who knew Paris at such an age, and my year came in the mid-1920s. Those of us who knew the delightfully wicked city then are apt to look upon that time...